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Dave Magadan

David Joseph Magadan

Positions: Third Baseman, First Baseman and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: September 30, 1962 in Tampa, FL
High School: Jesuit (Tampa, FL)
School: University of Alabama
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 2nd round of the 1983 amateur draft.
Signed June 23, 1983. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 7, 1986
Teams (by GP): Mets/Padres/Athletics/Marlins/Astros/... 1986-2001

Final Game: September 26, 2001
Relatives: Cousin of Lou Piniella
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:13AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #900. Todd Hundley… #901. Freddie Patek… #902. Ralph Garr… #903. DAVE MAGADAN… #904. Ron LeFlore… #905. Bubbles Hargrave… #906. Curt Welch… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1986 23 NYM NL 10 21 18 3 8 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 1 .444 .524 .444 .968 173 8 1 0 0 0 0 /3
1987 24 NYM NL 85 216 192 21 61 13 1 3 24 0 0 22 22 .318 .386 .443 .829 124 85 5 0 1 1 2 53
1988 25 NYM NL 112 380 314 39 87 15 0 1 35 0 1 60 39 .277 .393 .334 .728 116 105 9 2 1 3 4 35
1989 26 NYM NL 127 429 374 47 107 22 3 4 41 1 0 49 37 .286 .367 .393 .760 123 147 2 1 1 4 6 35
1990 27 NYM NL 144 541 451 74 148 28 6 6 72 2 1 74 55 .328 .417 .457 .874 141 206 11 2 4 10 4 *35 MVP-22
1991 28 NYM NL 124 517 418 58 108 23 0 4 51 1 1 83 50 .258 .378 .342 .721 106 143 5 2 7 7 3 *3
1992 29 NYM NL 99 379 321 33 91 9 1 3 28 1 0 56 44 .283 .390 .346 .736 112 111 6 0 2 0 3 5/3
1993 30 TOT MLB 137 544 455 49 124 23 0 5 50 2 1 80 63 .273 .378 .356 .734 97 162 12 1 2 6 7 53/D
1993 30 FLA NL 66 275 227 22 65 12 0 4 29 0 1 44 30 .286 .400 .392 .792 110 89 3 1 0 3 4 535/3
1993 30 SEA AL 71 269 228 27 59 11 0 1 21 2 0 36 33 .259 .356 .320 .676 83 73 9 0 2 3 3 535/3
1994 31 FLA NL 74 254 211 30 58 7 0 1 17 0 0 39 25 .275 .386 .322 .708 87 68 8 1 0 3 0 53
1995 32 HOU NL 127 422 348 44 109 24 0 2 51 2 1 71 56 .313 .428 .399 .827 127 139 9 0 1 2 9 *53
1996 33 CHC NL 78 201 169 23 43 10 0 3 17 0 2 29 23 .254 .360 .367 .727 91 62 3 0 1 2 3 53
1997 34 OAK AL 128 328 271 38 82 10 1 4 30 1 0 50 40 .303 .414 .391 .805 116 106 7 2 4 1 1 53
1998 35 OAK AL 35 123 109 12 35 8 0 1 13 0 1 13 12 .321 .390 .422 .812 116 46 5 0 0 1 1 5/3
1999 36 SDP NL 116 300 248 20 68 12 1 2 30 1 3 45 36 .274 .377 .355 .732 94 88 10 0 0 7 2 53
2000 37 SDP NL 95 166 132 13 36 7 0 2 21 0 0 32 23 .273 .410 .371 .781 107 49 4 0 0 2 1 5/36
2001 38 SDP NL 91 142 128 12 32 7 0 1 12 0 0 12 20 .250 .317 .328 .645 75 42 1 1 0 1 0 5/346
16 Seasons 1582 4963 4159 516 1197 218 13 42 495 11 11 718 546 .288 .390 .377 .767 112 1567 98 12 24 50 46
162 Game Avg. 162 508 426 53 123 22 1 4 51 1 1 74 56 .288 .390 .377 .767 112 160 10 1 2 5 5
G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
NYM (7 yrs) 701 2483 2088 275 610 110 11 21 254 5 3 347 248 .292 .391 .386 .776 122 805 39 7 16 25 22
SDP (3 yrs) 302 608 508 45 136 26 1 5 63 1 3 89 79 .268 .372 .352 .724 93 179 15 1 0 10 3
OAK (2 yrs) 163 451 380 50 117 18 1 5 43 1 1 63 52 .308 .407 .400 .807 116 152 12 2 4 2 2
FLA (2 yrs) 140 529 438 52 123 19 0 5 46 0 1 83 55 .281 .393 .358 .752 99 157 11 2 0 6 4
CHC (1 yr) 78 201 169 23 43 10 0 3 17 0 2 29 23 .254 .360 .367 .727 91 62 3 0 1 2 3
SEA (1 yr) 71 269 228 27 59 11 0 1 21 2 0 36 33 .259 .356 .320 .676 83 73 9 0 2 3 3
HOU (1 yr) 127 422 348 44 109 24 0 2 51 2 1 71 56 .313 .428 .399 .827 127 139 9 0 1 2 9
NL (14 yrs) 1348 4243 3551 439 1021 189 12 36 431 8 10 619 461 .288 .391 .378 .768 113 1342 77 10 18 45 41
AL (3 yrs) 234 720 608 77 176 29 1 6 64 3 1 99 85 .289 .388 .370 .758 104 225 21 2 6 5 5

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1986 23 NYM NL 21 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 6 0.6 3 0.3 0.3 $ /3
1987 24 NYM NL 216 8 -2 -2 0 4 0 7 15 1.5 11 1.1 0.4 $62,500 53
1988 25 NYM NL 380 12 -4 1 -1 2 -4 12 18 1.9 16 1.7 0.2 $112,500 35
1989 26 NYM NL 429 13 0 -1 1 6 -5 14 28 2.9 22 2.4 0.5 $170,000 35
1990 27 NYM NL 541 37 -1 -3 -1 10 -7 15 50 5.3 40 4.3 1.0 $395,000 *35 MVP-22
1991 28 NYM NL 517 9 0 0 1 -2 -8 14 14 1.5 16 1.7 -0.2 $1,250,000 *3
1992 29 NYM NL 379 8 -1 0 0 -5 1 11 14 1.5 19 2.0 -0.5 $1,393,750 5/3
1993 30 FLA NL 275 3 -1 0 0 4 1 8 15 1.5 11 1.1 0.4 $900,000 535/3
1993 30 SEA AL 269 -5 -1 -1 -1 -2 -2 9 -3 -0.3 -1 -0.1 -0.2 $ 535/3
1994 31 FLA NL 254 -3 -3 -1 -1 -1 0 7 -2 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $850,000 53
1995 32 HOU NL 422 21 -3 -3 0 -11 0 12 16 1.6 27 2.7 -1.1 $360,000 *53
1996 33 CHC NL 201 1 -2 1 0 2 0 6 8 0.8 6 0.6 0.2 $500,000 53
1997 34 OAK AL 328 6 -1 -1 0 2 -3 11 14 1.4 12 1.2 0.2 $255,000 53
1998 35 OAK AL 123 5 0 -1 -1 3 0 4 10 1.0 7 0.7 0.3 $475,000 5/3
1999 36 SDP NL 300 0 -3 -2 -1 2 -1 8 3 0.4 1 0.1 0.3 $575,000 53
2000 37 SDP NL 166 4 -1 0 0 4 0 5 12 1.2 8 0.8 0.4 $775,000 5/36
2001 38 SDP NL 142 -4 -1 -1 1 -3 0 4 -4 -0.4 -1 -0.1 -0.3 $575,000 5/346
16 Seasons 4963 117 -24 -14 -3 17 -28 148 214 22.2 196 20.4 1.8 $8,648,750
Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
NYM (7 yrs) 2483 89 -8 -5 0 17 -23 74 145 15.2 127 13.5 1.7 $3,383,750
SDP (3 yrs) 608 0 -5 -3 0 2 -1 17 11 1.2 8 0.8 0.4 $1,925,000
OAK (2 yrs) 451 11 -1 -2 -1 5 -3 15 24 2.4 19 1.9 0.5 $730,000
FLA (2 yrs) 529 0 -4 -1 -1 3 1 15 13 1.3 10 1.0 0.3 $1,750,000
CHC (1 yr) 201 1 -2 1 0 2 0 6 8 0.8 6 0.6 0.2 $500,000
SEA (1 yr) 269 -5 -1 -1 -1 -2 -2 9 -3 -0.3 -1 -0.1 -0.2 $
HOU (1 yr) 422 21 -3 -3 0 -11 0 12 16 1.6 27 2.7 -1.1 $360,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1988 25 NYM NL NLCS LAD L 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1986 NYM NL 23 1B 9 53 48 5 0 5 1.000 2 5.89 .992 9.96
1987 NYM NL 24 3B 50 104 17 85 2 5 .981 3 2.04 .951 2.80
1987 NYM NL 24 1B 13 80 71 7 2 4 .975 1 6.00 .991 9.83
1988 NYM NL 25 1B 71 485 441 38 6 36 .988 -2 6.75 .991 9.98
1988 NYM NL 25 3B 48 83 18 61 4 6 .952 4 1.65 .947 2.78
1989 NYM NL 26 1B 87 639 574 59 6 50 .991 6 7.28 .992 9.76
1989 NYM NL 26 3B 28 44 13 30 1 4 .977 -0 1.54 .943 2.71
1990 NYM NL 27 1B 113 903 830 71 2 52 .998 8 7.97 .992 9.53 MVP-22
1990 NYM NL 27 3B 19 36 7 28 1 1 .972 2 1.84 .947 2.71 MVP-22
1991 NYM NL 28 1B 122 1130 1035 90 5 73 .996 -2 9.22 .992 9.75
1992 NYM NL 29 3B 93 187 41 135 11 10 .941 -5 1.89 .952 2.67
1992 NYM NL 29 1B 2 14 13 1 0 1 1.000 0 7.00 .993 9.75
1993 TOT MLB 30 3B 90 250 67 174 9 17 .964 2 2.68 .947 2.67
1993 TOT MLB 30 1B 43 336 313 20 3 33 .991 1 7.74 .993 9.49
1993 FLA NL 30 3B 63 178 50 121 7 12 .961 4 2.71 .945 2.68
1993 SEA AL 30 1B 41 330 308 19 3 33 .991 1 7.98 .993 9.48
1993 SEA AL 30 3B 27 72 17 53 2 5 .972 -3 2.59 .951 2.66
1993 FLA NL 30 1B 2 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 -0 3.00 .992 9.60
1993 SEA AL 30 DH 2 2
1994 FLA NL 31 3B 48 96 21 71 4 5 .958 -2 1.92 .951 2.63
1994 FLA NL 31 1B 16 113 106 7 0 7 1.000 1 7.06 .992 9.67
1995 HOU NL 32 3B 100 232 55 159 18 9 .922 -11 2.14 .946 2.76
1995 HOU NL 32 1B 11 70 66 4 0 5 1.000 0 6.36 .993 9.66
1996 CHC NL 33 3B 51 82 16 63 3 4 .963 2 1.55 .948 2.69
1996 CHC NL 33 1B 10 63 59 4 0 4 1.000 -0 6.30 .992 9.56
1997 OAK AL 34 3B 49 84 25 54 5 7 .940 1 1.61 .953 2.65
1997 OAK AL 34 1B 30 134 123 11 0 15 1.000 1 4.47 .992 9.23
1997 OAK AL 34 DH 24 24
1998 OAK AL 35 3B 30 73 15 52 6 7 .918 3 2.23 .948 2.52
1998 OAK AL 35 1B 7 36 33 3 0 3 1.000 -0 5.14 .992 9.33
1999 SDP NL 36 3B 52 96 23 70 3 5 .969 -1 1.79 .953 2.66
1999 SDP NL 36 1B 42 204 186 15 3 19 .985 3 4.79 .993 9.13
2000 SDP NL 37 3B 29 42 11 29 2 2 .952 1 1.38 .950 2.61
2000 SDP NL 37 1B 8 57 47 10 0 7 1.000 3 7.13 .992 9.16
2000 SDP NL 37 SS 2 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 0 1.00 .965 4.45
2000 SDP NL 37 DH 1 1
2001 SDP NL 38 3B 22 40 15 23 2 2 .950 -2 1.73 .950 2.54
2001 SDP NL 38 1B 9 27 24 2 1 2 .963 -1 2.89 .993 9.16
2001 SDP NL 38 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80
2001 SDP NL 38 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 4.40
2001 SDP NL 38 DH 2 2
14 Seasons 3B 709 1449 344 1034 71 84 .951 -4 1.94 .949 2.69
16 Seasons 1B 593 4344 3969 347 28 316 .994 20 7.28 .992 9.62
2 Seasons SS 3 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 0 0.67 .965 4.43
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80
16 Seasons TOT 1306 5795 4313 1383 99 401 .983 17 4.36 .981 5.84
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1990 NL (22, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1498th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1990 NL  5.3 (10th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1990 NL  5.3 (7th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1990 NL  1.0 (6th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1990 NL  .328 (3rd)

On-Base% s c a p y
1990 NL  .417 (2nd)
1991 NL  .378 (8th)
1995 NL  .428 (3rd)**
Career  .390 (101st)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1990 NL  .874 (10th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1990 NL  74 (8th)
1991 NL  83 (7th)
1995 NL  71 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1990 NL  141 (6th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1990 NL  31 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1990 NL  3.1 (8th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1990 NL  .722 (6th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1990 NL  10 (5th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1990 NL  41.72 (5th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1990 NL  3.3 (7th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1990 NL  3.2 (10th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1990 NL  4.1 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1995 NL  18 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1989 NL  6 (3rd)
1990 NL  8 (3rd)
Career  20 (41st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1990 NL  .998 (1st)
1991 NL  .996 (4th)
Career  .994 (60th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1987 NL  3 (5th)
1993 NL  4 (5th)

                                         
A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order. Requirements to qualify for rate stats.
† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 10 (1394), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 8 (1323), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 20 (718), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  7. Dion James (950)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Darryl Hamilton (945)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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  10. Steve Braun (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
198724New York Mets$62,5001987 USA Today survey
198825New York Mets$112,500USA Today, 4/1/88
198926New York Mets$170,0001989 USA Today survey
199027New York Mets$395,000USA Today
199128New York Mets$1,250,000USA Today survey
199229New York Mets$1,393,7504/2/92 USA Today
199330Florida Marlins$900,0001996 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $50,000 signing bonus, $100K earned bonus
199431Florida Marlins$850,0001996 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $50,000 signing bonus
199532Houston Astros$360,0001996 Joint Exhibit 1Includes $85,000 earned bonus
199633Chicago Cubs$500,0001997 Joint Exhibit 1
199734Oakland Athletics$255,0001997 postseason AP surveyIncludes $50,000 earned bonus
199835Oakland Athletics$475,0004/3/98 USA Today
199936San Diego Padres$575,0004/6/99 USA Today
200037San Diego Padres$775,0004/5/00 AP
200138San Diego Padres$575,0004/6/01 USA Today
Career to date (may be incomplete)$8,648,750
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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